Lead Platform Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer

We are seeking a full-time Lead Platform Engineer at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area to implement, automate, and support platforms and CI/CD capabilities that enable reliable application delivery across cloud and on-premises environments. In this role, you will lead complex automation efforts, support Linux-based platforms and related integrations, improve operational reliability and performance, and work as a consultant with development teams to support scalable delivery practices.

This role is aligned to a level 3 engineering scope with strong hands-on ownership of automation, platform operations, troubleshooting, and cross-team technical execution.

Essential Functions:

• Exercises a significant degree of leadership to projects and programs which contribute directly to organizational objectives
• Leads major IT projects with multiple system and application integrations across the organization
• Develops and supports system integrations between multiple systems and/or applications
• Contributes to advanced technical research on new technologies and determines feasibility of team or functional goals/objectives
• Leads complex infrastructure, automation, and integration efforts across Dev Ops and platform-related services
• Builds and improves automation for provisioning, configuration management, and operational support using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Bash, and Python
• Supports and improves CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, and related developer tooling
• Troubleshoots complex Linux, platform, routing and integration issues involving infrastructure and configuration as code
• Improves system stability, scalability, alerting, logging, automated recovery, and overall operational performance
• Supports implementations while following security, operational, and change management standards
• Uses monitoring and operational data to improve uptime, capacity, and service reliability
• Researches technologies and evaluates practical solutions that support team and business goals
• Maintains clear technical and configuration documentation and communicates effectively across teams
• Plans and executes technical work independently while supporting development teams with onboarding and day-to-day guidance
• Applies standards and procedures to accomplish tasks
• Learns how to use and apply appropriate tools as needed for this role
• Documents work thoroughly and in an organized manner and works collaboratively and professionally in team environment with Garmin associates to achieve goals
• Applies the use of applicable technologies to achieve essential functions of this role

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or another related field AND a minimum of 9 years relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule) with the demonstrated ability to apply learned knowledge
• Strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in a small team setting
• Experience in implementing disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, Ansible) to automate provisioning and configuration of environments
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, or closely related platform infrastructure in production environments
• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems, TCP/IP networking fundamentals, and containerization technologies such as Docker or Podman
• Experience with source and version control practices
• Working skill in one or more scripting or coding languages such as Bash, Python, Ansible, etc.
• Able to think critically, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and work effectively with configuration as code
• Experience supporting or developing CI/CD and platform pipelines
• Work under light supervision and independently determine effective technical approaches and solution

Desired

Qualifications:

• Possess a breadth of experience across Linux, networking, and coding or automation disciplines
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and the…